Pocket Lemons - SOLD

Pocket Lemons Oil on Stretched Canvas, 6" x 6" SOLD at $45.00 plus $5.00 shipping. Another small pocket painting. Since I have the lemons anyway. This will be my new standard price for the "pocket paintings," with $5.00 shipping, unless of course, you live overseas.

Grogan Road Four - SOLD

Grogan Road Four Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14" SOLD. This one, in this size, is done on request. I am trying to slowly get caught up on my request list, and this makes one more done. Yay! If the collector decides against getting it, I'll change this post to "available." Addendum: They liked it, wanted it, it's SOLD.

Lemons Two - SOLD

Lemons Two Oil on Stretchd Canvas, 8" x 16" SOLD at $75.00 plus shipping. One of my collectors had a request in for a painting similar to "Lemons in a Line Up" in the same 8" x 16" size. I had to search several art stores to find the canvas, so I bought two. Did the Lemons for him last night, and this one this afternoon. (Since I had all the colors out, and the lemons were looking good...) The sold one is below: Lemons for Alan Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 16" SOLD.

Grapes Backlit - NA

Grapes Backlit Oil on Stretched Canvas, 6" x 6" Not Available. I am trying to teach myself to think smaller with these 6" x 6" canvases, even though they still take me three or four hours to do. I can see that I am going to have to invest in some smaller brushes. I really am enjoying this series of red grapes, the colors are so varied and beautiful. I am dubbing these small guys "pocket paintings" though nobody I know would carry a painting in their pocket. It's catchy, don't you think?

Go Grapes - SOLD

Go Grapes Oil on Stretched Canvas, 6" x 6" SOLD at $45.00 plus $5.00 shipping. I switched up canvas today, and floundered with it. I've been using Dick Blick brand canvas, and I've been very pleased with it. Switched to Winsor Newton, and I felt today like I was ice skating on this square. Time to get out the Gesso, it would seem, create some grip on these little guys.

Tootles!

Tootles! Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14" Available at $80.00 plus shipping. I am just amazed by how perceptive and detail savvy my readers are. I had notes, comments and emails from people who took the trouble to really study the WIP, and give me great advice on what was wrong with the painting. You were spot-on. I even had a reader who superimposed the painting over the photo to show me what I could correct. I wish I had the expertise to make every single change you all suggested. But today my paint is tacky, and so I made what small changes I could, and finished the piece with the intention of letting it dry before I make more corrections. Thanks, everyone, for all the great help! Addendum: My daughter and I agree, that while it's a sweet face, it isn't our Katie Grace. So I'll do another for my dd, and call this one practice. It is available, for whoever just wants a sweet faced child painting hanging somewhere.

Katie Grace in Progress

Katie Grace in Progress

Oil on Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14"

I generally don't show a WIP, but today I worked hard on this and didn't get done. Wanted to post it anyway. If it turns out to be enough of a likeness to my grandaughter, it will be a birthday present for my daughter. I also don't generally solicit critiques from you all, but if you can see what needs fixing or changing (there's a lot, I know), and feel like commenting, that would be great. The reference photo is included. Isn't she precious?

Grapies - SOLD

Grapies Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8" SOLD at $45.00 plus shipping. When you're an Oma of some duration, these are not grapes, but "grapies." Or would it be grapees? I love the colors you can find in these, yellows, oranges, ochres, reds, purples, mauve, brownish orange. In the light, they become almost translucent.

Ooo-la-la Apples - SOLD

Ooo-la-la Apples Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD at $65.00 plus shipping. I had some fun with this one. I had some apples, but not very inspiring, you know. Then I took a red towel and did a drape, and suddenly, you've got something interesting. This is definitely for someone who loves red.

Jubilee - SOLD

Jubilee Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD at $50.00 plus shipping. You know how sometimes you look in the fridge, even though you aren't sure what you're looking for. I opened an opaque plastic bag, and found cherries I didn't know were there. So today you get cherries...it's a jubilee!

Peppers with Purples - SOLD

Peppers with Purple

Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10"

SOLD at $20.00, including shipping.

This is a revision of the Wild Mama Blues pepper painting from a couple of weeks ago. Oils are supposed to mix with water soluble oils, but I got a tackiness from overpainting with oils today. I think it's probably best to stick with one or the other, but at least I like this piece better now. If somebody wants it, I should mention that the stretched canvas on this one is a bit tipped, and the framer will need to do a little tapping with a hammer to get it back on the square to frame it.

Drapery Study with Apples - NA

Drapery Study with Apples Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" Not Available, Revised on Dec. 18, 2010

I don't know why, but take away my stripes or polka dots, and I find drapery very hard to get right-looking. I struggled with this one today.

Wanna Cuppa? - SOLD

Wanna Cuppa? Oil on Stretched Canvas, 8" x 8" SOLD at $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping. Just a quick sketch today, and the answer is "Sure!"

Up Close Hydrangea 2 - SOLD

Up Close Hydrangea 2 Oil on Stretched Canvas, 18" x 18" SOLD. Another large piece, same colors and idea as yesterday, but it has a slightly different flavor to it. Less drama, perhaps, more soft and airy. They would actually make a nice set.

Up Close and Personal Hydrangea - SOLD

Up Close and Personal Hydrangea Oil on Stretched Canvas, 18" x 18" SOLD at $105.00 plus shipping. Isn't this one neat? Before I had the digital camera I have now, I had a beautiful Nikon, but I felt too guilty to keep it (very expensive), so I traded it in for my Canon at half the price. But I did take a few photos with it, and some of them were close ups of hygrangeas. This is from one of those photos.

Hydrangeas In the Pink - SOLD

Hydrangeas in the Pink Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD at $45.00 plus shipping. Today I was actually trying for a new way to paint these guys, but it didn't work out very well. I really want to find another way to do them besides the dots and dabs I've been using, but today it didn't happen.

Wedding Hydrangeas - SOLD

Wedding Hydrangeas Oil on Stretched Canvas, 18" x 18" SOLD The photo on this one is taken in evening bulb light, so it isn't as crisp and true as daylight photos. But it is intended as a wedding gift from a collector to a couple who loves hydrangeas.

Those First Few Drops - SOLD

Those First Few Drops Oil on Stretched Canvas, 10" x 10" SOLD at $45.00 plus shipping. I didn't mean for it to happen when I started, but the sky got rainy and I went with it. You can almost smell the ozone. The move is still ongoing, (my grey mood maybe?) more trips back to the old place, boxes everywhere in the new place, oh, la. Kids running around, U-Haul got stuck in the mud when the guys tried to save some steps and drove it into the grass. What a mess. I got settled enough to paint though, so we are getting back on track. I think I'll add a few dots of white in the water to represent those "first few drops."

Bay Inlet - SOLD

Bay Inlet Oil on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 16" SOLD at $80.00 plus shipping. I've had the photo reference for this one knocking around for about 5 years, ever since I took a weekend plein air class with Beth Kinsella Cople. The class met on the Eastern Shore, and it was wonderful. So today I dragged out the photo and used it as reference for this piece. My online class is doing landscapes this week, and some of the students want to paint water, so this one will become a step-by-step for them.

Grogan Road 3 - SOLD

Grogan Road 3 Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 22" x 28" Wrap Depth is 1.5" SOLD This one was done by request, and the edges aren't done yet, since I'm waiting for it to dry, but it was a two day painting because of the size. It's been awhile since I've done one as large as this. I'm very pleased with the reults.